At the age of 58, Carole King decided it was high time that she do as many people had asked and write about her life, and though it took her a dozen years to finish it, this fast-moving, grippingly honest memoir was well worth the wait. A writer of hit songs since the early 1960s, the winner of four Grammys for the landmark 1971 album Tapestry, and an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, King at 70 takes us from her early beginnings in Brooklyn through the release of her 2011 album A Holiday Carole. Along the way she frankly recounts her inspirations, her four marriages and her children, and her musical partnerships with Gerry Goffin, Toni Stern, James Taylor, and many others, as well as less-than-stellar moments onstage, an abusive relationship she stayed in for two years, and her political and environmental activism.